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Awards & Book News

The shortlist for the Cundill History Prize is announced.

The longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction is revealed. The Guardian has coverage.

The longlist for the Giller Prize for Canadian fiction comes out.

The shortlist for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime fiction is released. The Herald Scotland has coverage.

Danielle Treweek’s The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church (IVP Academic) wins Australian Christian Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly reports.

The National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community is awarded to W. Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press. Washington Post has a feature on Coates. Publishers Weekly also has coverage.

An appeals court upholds the ruling that Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library program is in violation of copyright law, Publishers Weekly reports. Vulture also has coverage.

Little Free Library has partnered with the ALA and PEN America to develop an interactive map of areas in which books are banned and locations of its book-sharing boxes, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

Daydream by Hannah Grace (Atria) dreams its way to No. 1 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Minotaur) grabs No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit) steals No. 15 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster (Harper) fights for No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Experiencing the American Dream: How To Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money To Create an Extraordinary Life by Mark Matson (Wiley) acquires No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Feeding Littles Lunches: 75+ No-Stress Lunches Everyone Will Love by Megan McNamee & Judy Delaware (Rodale) serves up No. 8 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 by Nick Lloyd (Norton) conquers No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

The Guardian reviews Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki (Grove): “Sinaki…is clearly having a lot of fun writing his own take on the classic noir, replete with sex and violence and sociopaths. But Medusa of the Roses lacks a key ingredient for a thriller: suspense”; Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire by David Hepworth (Diversion): “[Paul McCartney] shows no signs of quitting in the immediate future. Nor does David Hepworth, who clearly has an audience too: largely, one suspects, comprised of his fellow baby boomers. Even if you’re not in that demographic, it’s hard not to be entertained—and occasionally infuriated—by what he does”; and The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle (Viking): “The novel takes realism to exact times and places, down to particular Dublin streets and buildings at named hours of named days. I haven’t checked, but it’s the kind of writing that makes you believe Doyle has probably got the weather and certainly the passing of starling murmurations correct.”

NYT reviews Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic by Lindsay M. Chervinsky (Oxford Univ.): “[A] timely account of how Adams ascended to the highest office in the land and transformed it. She does not offer a full biography of Adams—for that, David McCullough and Joseph J. Ellis remain essential—but she deftly probes the way the second American president wielded power in the final four years of the 18th century.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub interviews Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake (Scribner).

NYT has a feature on Matt Haig, author of the week’s top holds title, The Life Impossible (Viking).

Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain (Farrar), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

LitHub has a Q&A with Alice Driver, author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company (Atria/One Signal).

The Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays, is expanding to also cover unpublished novels, NYT and Deadline report.

Reactor shares “five sci-fi stories about body hopping.”

CrimeReads discusses “complicated final girls and why we need them.”

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson about poetry and her new memoir, Lovely One (Random).

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast interviews Alissa Quart, author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (Ecco).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

Tomorrow, CBS Mornings will speak with Carol Hoenig, author of Before She Was a Finley (All Night), and Elin Hilderbrand, author of Swan Song (Little, Brown).

Good Morning America will interview Preston Perry, author of How To Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me To Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments (Tyndale).

Drew Barrymore Show will host Erin French, author of Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from the Lost Kitchen (Celadon).

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Hardy, and Cary Fukunaga are teaming up for a big-screen adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s Blood on Snow, Deadline reports.

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